I drive by this place a lot as it is in the next town over from me, and I sear I never drive by without feeling a creepy shudder down my spine, there is something wrong about that place that is totally at odds with the fairly beautiful campus buildings that face the roads. Part of it is I never actually see any people on campus...walking to class, hanging out on the quad, etc...

Magorn:I drive by this place a lot as it is in the next town over from me, and I sear I never drive by without feeling a creepy shudder down my spine, there is something wrong about that place that is totally at odds with the fairly beautiful campus buildings that face the roads. Part of it is I never actually see any people on campus...walking to class, hanging out on the quad, etc...

Because the College is recognized by the Department of Education as an eligible institution, PHC families are eligible to take advantage of student loans. To take advantage of these benefits, please be sure to use the College's OPE ID number 039513-00.

This school is utterly farked. Have fun with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

Boojum2k:ikanreed: Has anyone noticed that there aren't liberal schools where the rules say you have to obey liberal doctrine?

http://www.thefire.org/ might disagree with you.

Right, I forgot. Teaching anything that might construed as supporting a liberal cause is the same thing as "you must be a conservative christian and obey arcane rules while attending here" cult-schools.

ikanreed:Has anyone noticed that there aren't liberal schools where the rules say you have to obey liberal doctrine?

Fundamentally, the conservative brain is stimulated by fear and disgust, and conservative leaders control their followers by ginning up fear and disgust against outsiders. Following the rules is how you identify fellow insiders. And of course this is why conservative movements are so vulnerable to purity purges (see, for instance, RINOs).

Conversely, the liberal brain is stimulated by novelty and risk. You can no more enforce rules on liberals than you can herd cats, and this is why left wing movements are so prone to fragmentation.

I think the worst part is that by and large, these students are too sheltered to know any better regarding their rights. Their parents raise them in bubbles of religious rhetoric and hand them off to a college that they pay to do the same thing.

That being said, if I had a daughter who was assaulted and the lady who worked for the college implied that it was her own fault, I don't think they'd manage to pull me off her until I'd gouged at least one eye out.

At night they say you can see shadows behind the walls and plumes of ghostly smoke rising from the roots of the trees. If you stop for a while you'll hear the anguished cries of the damned souls that failed to heed the warning signs, and so must now call nightly for fresh blood to satiate the gods and demons that call that foul place home.

Because the College is recognized by the Department of Education as an eligible institution, PHC families are eligible to take advantage of student loans. To take advantage of these benefits, please be sure to use the College's OPE ID number 039513-00.

This school is utterly farked. Have fun with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.

At night they say you can see shadows behind the walls and plumes of ghostly smoke rising from the roots of the trees. If you stop for a while you'll hear the anguished cries of the damned souls that failed to heed the warning signs, and so must now call nightly for fresh blood to satiate the gods and demons that call that foul place home.

Pffft... I have to put up with the same crap every time I visit my grandmother's house.

ikanreed:Has anyone noticed that there aren't liberal schools where the rules say you have to obey liberal doctrine?

well "liberal doctrine" is a bit of an oxymoron but maybe that's the point.

Many years ago the New Yorker did a piece on PHC that was deeply disturbing to me, not because of their strict ultra-orthodox evangelical beliefs (their "science" department teaches a curriculum that is predicated on "young earth" creationism BTW) but because of the aggressive emphasis they have in placing their grads in political positions, AND the eagerness with which the GOP congressmen and Senators sought them out as staffers because of their "ideological purity". I think a lot of what gets done on Capitol Hill happens at the staff level, and a lot of the polarization and intransigence we see from the GOP can be directly attributed to a lot of the PHC grads and people like them on Congressional staffs (also their attitudes probably don;t help that whole "war on women " thing)

Teaching faculty must also sign the "Statement of Faith", plus a more detailed "Statement of Biblical Worldview", which represents the college's requirements for what should be taught.[25] For example the Biblical Worldview Applications states that, "Any biology, Bible, or other courses at PHC dealing with creation will teach creation from the understanding of Scripture that God's creative work, as described in Genesis 1:1-31, was completed in six twenty-four-hour days."[26]

Strolpol:I think the worst part is that by and large, these students are too sheltered to know any better regarding their rights. Their parents raise them in bubbles of religious rhetoric and hand them off to a college that they pay to do the same thing.

That being said, if I had a daughter who was assaulted and the lady who worked for the college implied that it was her own fault, I don't think they'd manage to pull me off her until I'd gouged at least one eye out.

If you had a daughter that attended that school, you'd probably agree with that lady and make a point to whip you daughter with a belt for her impurity the next time she was home on break. These is some scary people when you get down to it, and they have just as many votes as you when it comes to having a say in how the country is run. More maybe because of the "quiverful" movement

czetie:Magorn: I drive by this place a lot as it is in the next town over from me, and I sear I never drive by without feeling a creepy shudder down my spine, there is something wrong about that place that is totally at odds with the fairly beautiful campus buildings that face the roads. Part of it is I never actually see any people on campus...walking to class, hanging out on the quad, etc...

As reprehensible and twisted as this it it is, in essence, NO DIFFERENT from a major secular college protecting its male jocks from rape and molestations charges. At this school its ...but Jesus! at a PAC 10 school its ... but TV money!

Delawheredad:As reprehensible and twisted as this it it is, in essence, NO DIFFERENT from a major secular college protecting its male jocks from rape and molestations charges. At this school its ...but Jesus! at a PAC 10 school its ... but TV money!

Take it up with FIRE, they're the ones claiming widespread liberal indoctrination. *eyeroll*

So Patrick Henry College gets to ignore most federal laws on sexual assault on campus because they don't take federal funds? How about we stop letting colleges pretend to do law enforcement, period. College administrators shouldn't be in the loop for any actual crime investigation.

They held the regional science fair there the year I went. PLACE WAS farkING CREEPY. I was doing this project on genetic basis for old wives' tales and some professor there started twitching every time I said "sex" when discussing sex-linked traits. Later I heard him muttering about how high school girls shouldn't be talking about sex.